The first day in Wimbledon It is never easy. The abrupt surface change presents difficulties to adapt to ball mobility. On the grass boot low and fast, favoring the serve and volley. Therefore, few are usually produced breaks About grass, although the party between Alcaraz y Fognini He understood of few logics even if the rational was finally imposed and it was Carlitos to take (7-5, 6-7, 7-5, 2-6, 6-1) an extended porphyry until half past four hours. Not bad to start.
An illogical match only for the service, as up to ten breaks occurred, but by the version of the Italian. As superlative as unexpected, because it came from succumbing in the first round of the ATP 250 from Mallorca contra Altmaier and with a curriculum full of studs this season. Just four victories so far this year and all of them Challengers. However, Fognini always holds fun for the spectator and curves to his rival. They were faced with a double -sided Alcaraz with the service.
With practically the same double faults (7) as aces (9). “I don't feel the serve,” he told Ferrero that encouraged him to continue. “Cheer up”. And there are times when you have to row and know how to get the storm to take advantage of the opportunity when it occurs. That forges champions and there was Murcia to move, who brought together more non -forced errors (52) than winners (40).
The curves were from beginning to end, there was hardly any line on the road traveled by Alcaraz. He denied it practically an enlarged Fognini, perhaps for his last game in Wimbledon at age 38, or perhaps to face the number two of the world and in force champion of Roland Garros. Or maybe, and surely, a hybrid of both intangibles. The reality is that in those moved and in those led an insecure Alcaraz to the limit.
A match that started with fright in the first game for Fognini, but not for the scoreboard. The Italian felt something in his twin at the first point, although he did not prevent him from continuing. In fact, Alcaraz complicated a lot in the first manga, in which had to lift up to five balls from break against. However, the one who would end up breaking the service of his rival would be the Spanish in the eleventh game, to place himself with 6-5 and then close the first manga with a blank serve.
The loss of the first manga did not decentrate Fognini for the beginning of the second partial, and the Italian would show solidity with his serve in the first two shifts. But in the third, Alcaraz would squeeze him again from the rest and, in his first breakdown, he would achieve the break. However, this time it would not be definitive, since the Italian would match the manga in the eighth game (4-4) winning for the first time in the game a game to the rest.
Fognini was living the best tennis moments in the game, also coinciding with the most dubitative Carlos Alcaraz. In those, the second manga was dedicated to the tie break. A decisive game to which Fognini entered better and less erratic than the Murcianwhich caused him to take an important advantage (6-2), which despite Alcaraz's comeback conato, ended up being decisive for the final 7-5 for the Italian, which matched a set the duel.
Alcaraz grew up the problems
Alcaraz's difficulties would continue, especially with his serve, with which he barely managed to put first at stake. So, El Palmar would miss a 5-4 in his favor And take out to close the set, something that would definitely achieve in the twelfth game to the rest (7-5). Alcaraz survived a very complicated set in which, at times, the Italian was better.
And when everything seemed to make the game end on the fourth set, Fognini again deploy his magic to bluntly carry a partial in which Carlos Alcaraz It was very uncomfortable both to the serve and the rest. Deference of tennis level between the two that was reflected in the result of 6-2 favorable to Italian. A triumph in the partial that matched the game on two sets and sent it to the fifth.
Champion response
He had to reset Alcaraz, especially after Mental, physical and tennistic blockade that had suffered in the previous sleeve. And the beginning could not be better, since it would start with a favorable 3-0 partial after maintaining its first two serve shifts and breaking the first of Fognini. There, the game would be interrupted for more than 15 minutes due to a spectator's fading.
On the way back, Alcaraz would put even more land in the middle and close with a loaf 6-1 his most complicated debut in Wimbledon since 2021 when, in his first participation in the tournament he also needed five set to win Yasutaka Uchiyama. Now, in the second round, the Murcia will face the British Oliver trottedwhich won in three sets the Swiss Leandro Riedi.
However, the two -time tournament winner threw ex officio at the key moments of the game, especially in the final set, to add what is his 19th consecutive victory, and the 15th followed in Wimbledon, where he does not lose since 2022.
